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[quote=Anonymous]Berea is an excellent suggestion.

I actually think public flagships are the worst possible choice. Usually don't offer fin aid as good as the best endowed privates and they also tend to self-segregate along socioeconomic lines. Many have heavy Greek presences and the cost of belonging to a frat and especially a sorority is beyond the means of many families. At some state schools--notably U Texas-Austin--the "top" houses are made up mostly of young women whose mothers were in the same sororities and who went to public high schools, but the ones in the most affluent neighborhoods. Check out the parking lots; they bring their cars to college and they aren't beat up old bangers. They are the ones who spend thousands of dollars to decorate their dorm rooms --sometimes hiring an interior decorator. They sometimes hire consultants to help them get into a "good" sorority.

Yes, there are trust fund babies at the Ivies. Yes, some of them socialize with each other. But there's a lot more mixing because most people live on campus for at least 3 years, all the dorm rooms cost the same, at most---though not all--Greeks exist but don't dominate the social scene, very few people have their cars at college. [/quote]

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